Best of Enemies shows how intellectual sparring became TV spectacle —...
A masterfully crafted documentary, Best of Enemies uses humor, an intense devotion to archival footage and ultimately, a perspective that looks beyond its subjects to...
IndieEthos Insiders Tour 5: I, Daniel Blake breaks hearts with humanistic...
Politics and cinema has never mattered more to the British social-realist director Ken Loach. It was the election of a conservative government that brought him...
Vandal filmmaker talks shooting in Wynwood, progress of film with del...
Over the years, Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood has undergone a transformation from a mundane warehouse district in a sketchy neighborhood to a party hub featuring...
John Waters on his quirky Oscar noms as "an old white...
Yesterday, the news was full of analysis of the Oscar snubs and simplistic assumptions about the members who make up the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts...
Embrace of the Serpent director talks about casting Amazonian non-actors, cinematic...
Last week, Embrace of the Serpent, a movie that will certainly go down as one of the best films that saw release in the United...
The Nightingale makes revenge unsettling
There hasn’t been a movie this year that has so consistently moved me as much as the violent, horrifying revenge film The Nightingale. A...
The Assassin tells moving story of humanity beyond martial arts —...
Eight years after his first film outside of either Taiwan or China (the Paris-set The Flight of the Red Balloon), Hou Hsiao-hsien could not have...
My profile of director Lasse Hallström in ‘the Miami Herald’
This is a quick post previewing Day 3 of the Miami International Film Festival. This morning an article I wrote on Swedish director Lasse...
Barry Jenkins, Boots Riley and Patricia Clarkson to appear at 36th...
Yesterday, Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival officially announced this year’s complete lineup of movies and events. Beyond the headline I just wrote, the...
Miami Film Festival movies for lovers of experimental film: Cocote and...
For the more adventurous cinephile, the 35th edition of Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival has a few selections worth seeking out. They may...